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...prototype can seat 64, a tremendous advantage over its STOL and V/STOL rivals for interurban hops. The closest runner-up, Germany's Dornier Skyservant, seats only twelve; other STOL-type planes that have begun to enter the U.S. air-taxi/commuter business, like Canada's De Havilland Otter and the Helio Courier, have only a fraction of McDonnell Douglas' payload. Fully loaded, the plane can cruise at 250 m.p.h., land at speeds as slow as 55 m.p.h. on a 500-ft. runway; it can take off within 1,000 ft. (one-seventh the length of La Guardia...
Crowded Market. After months of delay, the hares have begun to nibble. Two Bremen outfits-Focke-Wulf and Weser-late last year merged to form the Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke, now Germany's largest planemaking company (7,000 workers). Last week Claudius Dornier, 79, boss of his family-owned aircraft company, agreed to join the four leading planemakers in southern Germany-Messerschmitt, Siebelwerke, Heinkel and Bolkow-in establishing a joint company for research and development. The leading power in the new company is Ludwig Bolkow, 51, a wartime designer for Messerschmitt and a leading Eierk...
...Lone Dornier. Strongest of all the roadblocks was established on the airport road a day later; there, a company of Katanga's paracommandos cut the highway with three armored cars and several 60-mm. mortars. At least three white men in civilian clothes were with them, apparently in command; they seemed to be part of Tshombe's force of hired Belgians, Rhodesians, British and South Africans, which the Katanga government only a week earlier had said was disbanded and out of the country...
...clear that he had little or no control over the determined Katanga forces. It was now apparent that the U.N. personnel could reach the town only by using force. Then came word that Katangese units were moving up to encircle the airport itself, and one of Katanga's Dornier planes flew over the field. Certain that an attack against the U.N. was imminent, Smith turned to the U.N.'s military commander in Katanga. India's Brigadier K.A.S. Raja, and told him: "Matters are in your hands now. Deal with the roadblock by military means...
...already manufactures Hispano-Suiza armored troop carriers under license. In fact, close to half of Bundeswehr procurement now benefits German firms. Germany's once huge aircraft industry has been pulled together into two big "North" and "South" industrial units, composed of such famous firms as Heinkel, Messerschmitt and Dornier. The government has already awarded them contracts to make 200 F-104s and other foreign planes under license. A Krupp subsidiary, "Weser" Flugzeugbau, has been commissioned to design a medium-range transport. In March, Strauss's Defense Ministry parceled out $520 million in military spending, five times the average...